Metadata : F. I. Uspenskii
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский филиал архива Российской академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, St. Petersburg, Universitetskaia naberezhnaia, d. 1
- Phone number:
- (812) 323-08-21
- Web address:
- www.ranar.spb.ru
- Email:
- archive@spbrc.nw.ru
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский филиал архива Российской академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, St. Petersburg, Universitetskaia naberezhnaia, d. 1
- Phone number:
- (812) 323-08-21
- Web address:
- www.ranar.spb.ru
- Email:
- archive@spbrc.nw.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 116
- Title:
- F. I. Uspenskii
- Title (official language):
- Успенский Ф. И.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Uspenskii, Fedor Ivanovich
- Date(s):
- 1860/1929
- Language:
- Russian
- French
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Latin
- German
- English
- Extent:
- 942 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Cartographic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains scholarly works of F. I. Uspenskii: manuscripts of his History of Byzantium; articles and essays on the history of Byzantium, Greece, the Middle East, Rome, Russia and Russian policy vis-à-vis the Middle East, as well as materials pertaining to lecture courses, summaries and syllabi thereof; reviews and evaluations of other scholars’ research studies (1860-1929); F. I. Uspenskii’s correspondence (1871-1928); and illustrative materials (1898-1916).
Documents pertaining to Jewish history and culture (ops. 1-3) may be provisionally divided into four thematic groups:
1) F. I. Uspenskii’s research works on Jewish history and literature, including manuscripts of articles titled “Nikifor Feotoki and the Leipzig edition of the Commentary on the Octateuch” (1904) and “Travel Notes of Benjamin of Tudela”, with an appended manuscript copy of a fragment headed “Travel Notes” that describes the Jewish colony in Constantinople (c. 1923); reviews of scholarly works of other persons, including F. I. Uspenskii’s review of G. Schlumberger’s book Campagnes du roi Amaury Ier de Jerusalem en Egypte an XIIe siecle (Campaigns of King Amalric I of Jerusalem in Egypt in the 12th c.; Paris, 1906), published in the Journal of the Ministry of Education; extensive preparatory materials for F. I. Uspenskii’s scholarly works, in particular, rough drafts for his lecture courses and outlines for essays on the history of Jews in Rome and Byzantium (1919); excerpts from the works of I. Schipper, I. Tsel’man, Hermann Strack, and others, as well as a brief bibliography on this subject, including works by H. Graetz, G. B. Depping, Simon Dubnow, D. Asher and others.
2) F. I. Uspenskii’s correspondence with Z. Ashkenazi (1895) and G. M. Barats (1893-1909).
3) Works by other persons, including a typescript (with the author’s corrections) of an article by A. A. Orlov, consul-general in Baghdad, titled “A Description of the Chaldean Catholic Cemetery and Church in Kirkuk in Mesopotamia” (1911); a study by G. Laskin, corresponding member of the Archaeological Society of Constantine (Algeria), titled “The Temple of the Holy Sepulchre”, which describes the history of Jerusalem and the stages by which its urban fortifications were constructed (undated).
4) Illustrative materials in the fonds include a map of Jerusalem and environs; a copy of a chart of excavations performed in Jerusalem by Pakhomii, abbot of the monastery of St. John the Baptist (1896); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Fedor Ivanovich Uspenskii (1845-1928) was a Byzantinist. He graduated from the history and philology department of St. Petersburg University in 1872. In 1874, he defended his master’s thesis and was made a full-time docent by the council of Novorossiia University. In this capacity he made trips to France and Italy for further study. In 1879, he defended a doctoral dissertation titled “The Formation of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom”, upon which he was made a professor of Novorossiia University. His academic specialisation was the history of Byzantium and the South Slavic countries. His interests also included the history of relations between Russia and the countries of the Middle East, and the history of Syria and Palestine. In 1900, he became a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and it was on his initiative that the Russian Archaeological Institute was established in Istanbul; he became its director in 1894 and remained in this post until the institute’s liquidation in 1914 in connection with the outbreak of the First World War. With Istanbul as his base, he made several archaeological excursions, including to Syria and Palestine. From 1915 to 1928, he served as editor of the Byzantine Chronicle; from 1922 to 1927, he lectured at Leningrad State University. He became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1917 and in 1928 a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His main scholarly works were A History of the Byzantine Empire (in 3 vols.; St. Petersburg, Moscow, Leningrad, 1913-48), “On the History of Peasant Land Ownership in Byzantium” (Journal of the Ministry of Education, 1883, no. 1-2), Byzantine and South Slavic Pronoiai (St. Petersburg, 1883), “Traces of Scribal Books in Byzantium” (Journal of the Ministry of Education, 1884, nos. 1, 2, 1885, no. 7), Essays on the History of Byzantine Education (St. Petersburg, 1891) and Essays from the History of the Trabzon Empire (Leningrad, 1929).
The archive of the Academy of Sciences was established by decree of Emperor Peter I in 1728 to house documents of the Conference (supreme assembly) of the Academy. At the same time, Academy of Sciences President L L Bliumentrost appointed Gerhard Friedrich Müller, a student of the Academy gymnasium (subsequently an academician, and the first historiographer to the Russian Empire), to organise the files of the Conference of the Academy of Sciences. During the 18th to 20th centuries, separate archives of other subdivisions of the Academy of Sciences existed as well: the archives of the Chancellery of the Academy of Sciences (18th century) and the Committee of the Board of the Academy of Sciences (the chancellery’s institutional successor; documents date from 1803) as well as archives of departments. In 1922, all Academy archives were merged into a single Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, renamed in 1930 the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences (and in 1991, once again the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1936, a Moscow branch of the archive was created in connection with the Academy’s relocation to that city. In 1963, the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad was reorganised as the Leningrad Branch of the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences, while the Archival Directorate was transferred to Moscow. In 1991, the Leningrad branch was renamed the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPF ARAN). The archive houses over 1,600 fonds containing approximately one million items.
- Access points: locations:
- Constantinople
- Jerusalem
- Russia
- Subject terms:
- Archeology
- Architecture
- Correspondence
- Historical research
- Maps
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises three series arranged by structure, thematically and alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Reference number:
- F. 116
- Title:
- F. I. Uspenskii
- Title (official language):
- Успенский Ф. И.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Uspenskii, Fedor Ivanovich
- Date(s):
- 1860/1929
- Language:
- Russian
- French
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Latin
- German
- English
- Extent:
- 942 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Cartographic material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains scholarly works of F. I. Uspenskii: manuscripts of his History of Byzantium; articles and essays on the history of Byzantium, Greece, the Middle East, Rome, Russia and Russian policy vis-à-vis the Middle East, as well as materials pertaining to lecture courses, summaries and syllabi thereof; reviews and evaluations of other scholars’ research studies (1860-1929); F. I. Uspenskii’s correspondence (1871-1928); and illustrative materials (1898-1916).
Documents pertaining to Jewish history and culture (ops. 1-3) may be provisionally divided into four thematic groups:
1) F. I. Uspenskii’s research works on Jewish history and literature, including manuscripts of articles titled “Nikifor Feotoki and the Leipzig edition of the Commentary on the Octateuch” (1904) and “Travel Notes of Benjamin of Tudela”, with an appended manuscript copy of a fragment headed “Travel Notes” that describes the Jewish colony in Constantinople (c. 1923); reviews of scholarly works of other persons, including F. I. Uspenskii’s review of G. Schlumberger’s book Campagnes du roi Amaury Ier de Jerusalem en Egypte an XIIe siecle (Campaigns of King Amalric I of Jerusalem in Egypt in the 12th c.; Paris, 1906), published in the Journal of the Ministry of Education; extensive preparatory materials for F. I. Uspenskii’s scholarly works, in particular, rough drafts for his lecture courses and outlines for essays on the history of Jews in Rome and Byzantium (1919); excerpts from the works of I. Schipper, I. Tsel’man, Hermann Strack, and others, as well as a brief bibliography on this subject, including works by H. Graetz, G. B. Depping, Simon Dubnow, D. Asher and others.
2) F. I. Uspenskii’s correspondence with Z. Ashkenazi (1895) and G. M. Barats (1893-1909).
3) Works by other persons, including a typescript (with the author’s corrections) of an article by A. A. Orlov, consul-general in Baghdad, titled “A Description of the Chaldean Catholic Cemetery and Church in Kirkuk in Mesopotamia” (1911); a study by G. Laskin, corresponding member of the Archaeological Society of Constantine (Algeria), titled “The Temple of the Holy Sepulchre”, which describes the history of Jerusalem and the stages by which its urban fortifications were constructed (undated).
4) Illustrative materials in the fonds include a map of Jerusalem and environs; a copy of a chart of excavations performed in Jerusalem by Pakhomii, abbot of the monastery of St. John the Baptist (1896); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Fedor Ivanovich Uspenskii (1845-1928) was a Byzantinist. He graduated from the history and philology department of St. Petersburg University in 1872. In 1874, he defended his master’s thesis and was made a full-time docent by the council of Novorossiia University. In this capacity he made trips to France and Italy for further study. In 1879, he defended a doctoral dissertation titled “The Formation of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom”, upon which he was made a professor of Novorossiia University. His academic specialisation was the history of Byzantium and the South Slavic countries. His interests also included the history of relations between Russia and the countries of the Middle East, and the history of Syria and Palestine. In 1900, he became a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and it was on his initiative that the Russian Archaeological Institute was established in Istanbul; he became its director in 1894 and remained in this post until the institute’s liquidation in 1914 in connection with the outbreak of the First World War. With Istanbul as his base, he made several archaeological excursions, including to Syria and Palestine. From 1915 to 1928, he served as editor of the Byzantine Chronicle; from 1922 to 1927, he lectured at Leningrad State University. He became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1917 and in 1928 a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His main scholarly works were A History of the Byzantine Empire (in 3 vols.; St. Petersburg, Moscow, Leningrad, 1913-48), “On the History of Peasant Land Ownership in Byzantium” (Journal of the Ministry of Education, 1883, no. 1-2), Byzantine and South Slavic Pronoiai (St. Petersburg, 1883), “Traces of Scribal Books in Byzantium” (Journal of the Ministry of Education, 1884, nos. 1, 2, 1885, no. 7), Essays on the History of Byzantine Education (St. Petersburg, 1891) and Essays from the History of the Trabzon Empire (Leningrad, 1929).
The archive of the Academy of Sciences was established by decree of Emperor Peter I in 1728 to house documents of the Conference (supreme assembly) of the Academy. At the same time, Academy of Sciences President L L Bliumentrost appointed Gerhard Friedrich Müller, a student of the Academy gymnasium (subsequently an academician, and the first historiographer to the Russian Empire), to organise the files of the Conference of the Academy of Sciences. During the 18th to 20th centuries, separate archives of other subdivisions of the Academy of Sciences existed as well: the archives of the Chancellery of the Academy of Sciences (18th century) and the Committee of the Board of the Academy of Sciences (the chancellery’s institutional successor; documents date from 1803) as well as archives of departments. In 1922, all Academy archives were merged into a single Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, renamed in 1930 the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences (and in 1991, once again the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1936, a Moscow branch of the archive was created in connection with the Academy’s relocation to that city. In 1963, the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad was reorganised as the Leningrad Branch of the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences, while the Archival Directorate was transferred to Moscow. In 1991, the Leningrad branch was renamed the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPF ARAN). The archive houses over 1,600 fonds containing approximately one million items.
- Access points: locations:
- Constantinople
- Jerusalem
- Russia
- Subject terms:
- Archeology
- Architecture
- Correspondence
- Historical research
- Maps
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises three series arranged by structure, thematically and alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
